Former residence of Liu Bocheng

Former residence of Liu Bocheng

Liu Bocheng's former residence is located in Zhaojia street, Kaizhou District, Chongqing, 28 kilometers away from the city of Kaizhou district and 50 kilometers away from Wanzhou District, Chongqing. It is a cultural relic protection unit of Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality.

The former residence covers an area of 8.65 mu. Located in Shenjiawan, a beautiful terrace of Xiaohua mountain, the Puli River in front of the gate flows slowly along the foot of the mountain to the Yangtze River. The former residence is surrounded by green bamboos, with special landform and many legends. From afar, you can look at the mountains like sleeping Buddha, overlooking the Zhaojia street where farmers are flourishing. It looks like a seat on the hillside. In front of the seat is a place named "dianjiangtai", and the broad Bazi on the opposite side of the mountain is called "parade ground".

Liu Shuai's former residence was closed for maintenance on Monday and opened free of charge from Tuesday to Sunday.

Structure of former residence

In front of the former residence of Marshal Liu Bocheng, there are exquisite embossed wreaths and two shady Jue trees. In 1989, the former residence of Marshal Liu Bocheng in Shenjiawan was restored according to its original appearance and designated as a provincial cultural relic protection unit. The former residence is a courtyard with green tile walls and half thatched cottages. It is an ordinary farmhouse in eastern Sichuan (now eastern Chongqing) in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, there were only three humble rooms. Due to the increase of brothers and sisters, several more were built one after another. Over the front door of the main hall of the former residence, there is a plaque of "former residence of Comrade Liu Bocheng" inscribed by Comrade Deng Xiaoping in 1986. Facing the left room is Liu Bocheng's bedroom, and the right room is Liu Bocheng's parents' bedroom.

General introduction

According to the "Liu's Genealogy" on display in his former residence, Liu's ancestral home was originally in Jiangling County, Jingzhou Prefecture, Hubei Province, and later moved to Guankou Township, Yunyang County, Chongqing city to settle down with the wave of immigrants from Huguang to Sichuan in the early Qing Dynasty. During the Xianfeng Period, Liu Bocheng's grandfather, Liu Zhengfu, was exiled to the Bank of Puli River in Kaixian County in 1860 because he could not afford to pay a tenancy. He started farming while playing the suona for others. He worked as a blacksmith. He gradually accumulated money and grain, purchased land, cultivated and fed himself, and established a home. He had six sons.

Liu Bocheng's father, Liu Wenbing, ranked sixth. When the family economy improved, he studied in private schools for several years and had a high cultural accomplishment. He wrote Liu's genealogy, and at the same time, he played the suona and made farm tools and household utensils. He was an expert in farming and was a well-known "clay footed scholar" in the local area.

Liu Bocheng's mother, Zhou Yinxiang, is tall, strong, hardworking, thrifty, intelligent and kind-hearted. The custom in eastern Sichuan is "sitting on the upper hand, with men as servants and women as gatekeepers". She has a pair of big feet that are not entangled. She is very good at farming outside, running a home inside, spinning cotton and skillful sewing. She is also kind-hearted, which is highly valued by her parents-in-law and praised by the countryside. She has four male and three female faces. The male is arranged by "Bo Zhong Shu Ji", and Liu Bocheng takes the lead.

On December 4, 1892, Liu Bocheng was born in liujiayuan, Zhangjiaba, zhoudu village, Zhaojia Town, Kaixian County, Chongqing. When Liu Bocheng was 5 years old, he separated with his parents and moved to Shenjiawan, a back slope more than 100 meters away from the old house. Liu Bocheng lived here for 14 years until 1911, when he left home to join the revolution of 1911.

There are 35 cultural relics in Liu Bocheng's former residence, of which 11 are distributed in his bedroom, parents' bedroom, kitchen and hall. Through the intact display and the well preserved stone water tank for drinking water, the stone milling plate for processing grain (unearthed in 1985), the pond for irrigation and fish culture, the parents' cemetery with bright grass and no tombstone, the five big Jue ancient trees that block the sky and lead to the riverside wharf The ancient road, where Liu Bocheng used to study, cool down and rest when he was a teenager, and the maliulin, birthplace and private school ruins where he herded cattle by the river, truly represent Liu Bocheng's life from 1892 to 1911 in such a hard-working, poor and educated family environment.

On the right side of Liu Bocheng's former residence (originally the second younger brother Liu Mingshu and the third younger brother Liu Shuyu's living room and storehouse), three auxiliary exhibition rooms have been set up. With 17 cultural relics and more than 50 pictures, it shows Liu Bocheng who has been smart since he was a child. Zhong Yu's contribution to his hometown's beautiful landscape helps his parents and a teacher who is good at literature and martial arts, and makes him well received in moral, intellectual and physical aspects His education showed that he worked hard when he was young, resented the corruption of the Qing government, and was determined to save the people. His early hard life laid a solid foundation for Liu Bocheng to become the founder of new China and a famous commander of the new generation.

The long years have passed. Liu Bocheng never forgot to nurture his hometown. On October 7, 1986, Liu Bocheng died of illness in Beijing at the age of 94. According to his will before his death and Comrade Wang Ronghua's letter to the Central Military Commission, Liu Shuai's ashes are required to be "scattered in Taihang Mountain, Dabie Mountain, Huaihai battlefield, Nanjing and southwest China, so that your loyal soul, the land and people who raised you, the place where you command thousands of troops and horses, and the countless martyrs who have been sleeping there forever" and some of them were unearthed in October 1986 Two Jue trees were planted from the center on June 24. Finally, he returned to the hometown where he was raised.

On November 26, 1986, Comrade Deng Xiaoping personally inscribed the plaque name of "former residence of Comrade Liu Bocheng". In the summer of 1987, the Kaixian county government built a solemn and simple cemetery in the middle of two Huangjue trees where Liu Shuai's ashes were buried. On the wenqingshi tombstone, marshal Xu Qianqian wrote in June 1987 that "part of the ashes of the great proletarian revolutionary Liu Bocheng were buried here.".

Influence of later generations

People in Kaixian's hometown are proud of Liu Bocheng. To commemorate this great man for generations, they repaired Liu Shuai's former residence and set up a bluestone monument in front of the right side of the former residence. At the head of "Liu Shuai's hometown bridge" on the Puli River, an 8-meter-high bronze statue of Liu Bocheng's majestic Lu Ma was built, and an exhibition hall of Marshal Liu Bocheng's former residence was set up. Liu Shuai's former residence has become an important education base of patriotism and revolutionary tradition in Chongqing.

In 2000, the Chongqing municipal government announced the former residence of Comrade Liu Bocheng as the first batch of cultural relics protection units directly under the central government.

Traffic situation

Take the coach from Chaotianmen or Caiyuanba coach station to Kaizhou district. The fare is 129 yuan, about 4 hours. Kaizhou district by bus to the former residence, about 40 minutes by car, ticket price 1 yuan. Self driving: go to Wanzhou via Yuwan expressway, and then to Liu Bocheng's former residence in Zhaojia Town, Kaizhou District, 3.5 hours' drive.

Address: 512 County Road, Kai County, Chongqing

Longitude: 108.425831

Latitude: 31.075252

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